Does it matter who's fault it is ? It is all of our responsibility to not destroy the earth and it will be all of us who die if something happens so we should not waver from doing everything possible to prevent its destruction. This is not about harming nature its about preserving what we have.
Even if our responses prove futile and nature is wiping us out , we should at least have tried. I think the human race deserves far more than to become extinct through lazyness , apathy and mismangement. There is no excuse for not caring about global warming , only delusions.
His capture is not so much an erosion of rights but the reactions from scheming politicans will almost certainly cause an erosion of rights . I predict that this arrest will be abused to create a perception that online freedom is breeding terrorism . From here damage to civil rights will ensue. In the long run the actions of the politicans will be far more damaging than this individual could ever have been.
personally i've never seen an office suite work they way i want it to or even the way it says it will.
At least with the open source tools i can fiddle with them to add new stuff or remove stuff i don't use instead of waiting several years for someone else to possibly make that decision and paying for the 'privelege'.
Seemless integration doesn't come out of the box , it comes from having an open code base that you can bend to your will .
people in offices where the company can't afford the latest upgrades to get bug fixes. Lots of people who paid for windows 98 are still using it , there must also be a fair few XP users on dial up who still haven't got SP2 yet . Some people also disable the security to enable $app to work faster and forget to reanable.
> That being said, I am for new technology and I am hoping > nano-tech will be used in a responsible manner.
Just like we used all the other dangerous technologies we have discovered recently ? My concern is mostly about the humans that will end up controlling it , we could use it safely but given humanities track record of using technology to abuse each other this could be a bad move.
Whats the harm in going a little slower and making sure things are safe and well thought out. I'm happy to wait .
If i had some mod points left thats what i'd have done .
Seriously , Wonderkid has a point . With so much money and technology under the control of an industry that is diametricly opposed to sustainable fuels its no wonder they seem basic at the moment .
Most solar panels at present don't genereate as much energy as it takes to make them , that doesn't mean they are useless , just that they aren't ready yet . Every technology goes through this phase at some point , it usually takes a bit of a risk to get it to the mainstream. Once its there it benefits from the massive exposure and improves dramatically.
Wake up people we can't carry on using Petrol , wonderkid has the right idea,find another way to do things. Don't wait for the government to say 'right everyone , stop using petrol now' , they won't thats where they get their money from so they aren't going to cut their revenue.
You can take control of your life , your planet , your destiny or just throw it all way with lazyness and fear. The choice is yours but the effects are all of ours. choose carefully.
you are right its not about 3000+ new yorkers mudered in cold blood , its about the thousands who die all over the world every day as a result of united states foreign policy and globalisation . It was certainly a tragic event but lets not pretend it came out of the blue.
Your life might have been impacted slightly and you might have seen some horrible images on tv but you are not being chased by armed soliders , having your ancestral lands appropriated nor being left to deal with consequences of global warming which you where nothing to do with. Thats only the tip of the iceberg.
The people who were attacked were people who have been benefiting from the exploitation of the poorer parts of the world for years if anyone deserved such a thing ( which i dont think anyone does ) then the people in those towers where pretty damn close.
If you want to do something about the threat of terrorism then get rid of leaders whos policy provokes it and think about where all the things you love to buy come from , otherwise quit whining.
you could say that they own it but then you could also say they don't .
A film relies on many cultural artifacts , these artifacts where shared by our predecessors . If film companies are to be allowed to enforce rediculous copyright restrictions they should also acknowledge that they are using so many things for free . I would like to see funds donated to a charitable foundation everytime the sky is featured in a film or tv program , everytime some printed text appears a payment should be made to the estate of william caxton . This list is nearly endless .
Untill this hypocrasy is resolved i shall continue to download films .
Seeing as this case involved an american procecuting a russian the language differences make it of dubious use for precedent. A Domainname could mean something in one language but be phonetically similar to something completely different in another language. Whose language would take precedence ? probably the person with most money.
I use a Netgear DG834G which appears to run linux 2.4.17 on its MIPS malta processor.
You can download a bundle of the packages it uses from netgear but they are not configured so its hard to patch or hack with it cos you'd have to redo their work.
This seems at odds with the GPL , on the grounds that if you use GPL'ed code you must publish not just the original source but your modifications as well . or am i wrong ?
The firmware upgrade patch is easily dissasembled and i've managed to hack the file system (cramfs) out of the firmware . So there is a possiblilty that modifying the filesystem might open up safer modification by making telnet accessable. but i'm too much of a chicken to try it and i expect the checksum would fail.
In the light of this microsoft monopoly business we should all be thinking about how we can preserve software diversity and not winging about advantages and disadvantages of X software against Y software . I could'nt give a brass farthing if somebody else likes a browser or not, as a web developer all i want is a browser that conforms to HTML and JavaScript properly . This leads me to no conclusion as to which is best only that greater adhearence to specs is needed . As a user i have my specific needs and look for the software that full-fills it and try to avoid the politics - end of story . By setting up camps and raising the issue above it's low status i think peoples time to look in to real issue's is diminished by having to sift through browser wars threads mistaking them for real social commentry . Maybe if people just commented on the positive aspects of each browser something productive may emerge instead of going round in decreasing circles . We could save time by writing a program to post the name of each web browser in turn to a newsgroup . So in answer to the original question , for Navigator 5 to succeed IMHO all it needs is strict standards conformance , to be cross platform and all other bells and whistles easily removable. Toodle-pip Amias
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Does it matter who's fault it is ? It is all of our responsibility to not destroy the earth and it will be all of us who die if something happens so we should not waver from doing
everything possible to prevent its destruction. This is not about harming nature its about preserving what we have.
Even if our responses prove futile and nature is wiping us out , we should at least have tried. I think the human race deserves far more than to become extinct through lazyness , apathy and mismangement. There is no excuse for not caring about global warming , only delusions.
His capture is not so much an erosion of rights but the reactions from scheming politicans will almost certainly cause an erosion of rights . I predict that this arrest will be abused
to create a perception that online freedom is breeding terrorism . From here damage to civil rights will ensue. In the long run the actions of the politicans will be far more damaging
than this individual could ever have been.
personally i've never seen an office suite work they way i want it to
or even the way it says it will.
At least with the open source tools i can fiddle with them to add new
stuff or remove stuff i don't use instead of waiting several years
for someone else to possibly make that decision and paying for the
'privelege'.
Seemless integration doesn't come out of the box , it comes from having
an open code base that you can bend to your will .
i could tell you if gmail hadn't just deleted my gmailfs.
I believed you right up to the phrase 'primary coders girlfriend'.
erm ok then , 5 million billion squillion quid
http://english.www.gov.tw/e-Gov/index.jsp
yay , i win .
people in offices where the company can't afford the latest upgrades to get bug fixes.
Lots of people who paid for windows 98 are still using it , there must also be a fair
few XP users on dial up who still haven't got SP2 yet . Some people also disable the
security to enable $app to work faster and forget to reanable.
> That being said, I am for new technology and I am hoping
> nano-tech will be used in a responsible manner.
Just like we used all the other dangerous technologies we have
discovered recently ?
My concern is mostly about the humans that will end up controlling
it , we could use it safely but given humanities track record of
using technology to abuse each other this could be a bad move.
Whats the harm in going a little slower and making sure things are
safe and well thought out. I'm happy to wait .
Toodle-pip
Amias
If i had some mod points left thats what i'd have done .
,find another
Seriously , Wonderkid has a point . With so much money and technology under the control of
an industry that is diametricly opposed to sustainable fuels its no wonder they seem basic
at the moment .
Most solar panels at present don't genereate as much energy as it takes to make them , that
doesn't mean they are useless , just that they aren't ready yet . Every technology goes through this phase at some point , it usually takes a bit of a risk to get it to the mainstream. Once its there it benefits from the massive exposure and improves dramatically.
Wake up people we can't carry on using Petrol , wonderkid has the right idea
way to do things. Don't wait for the government to say 'right everyone , stop using petrol now' , they won't thats where they get their money from so they aren't going to cut their
revenue.
You can take control of your life , your planet , your destiny or just throw it all way with lazyness and fear. The choice is yours but the effects are all of ours. choose carefully.
you are right its not about 3000+ new yorkers mudered in cold blood , its about the thousands who die all over the world every day as a result of united states foreign policy and globalisation . It was certainly a tragic event but lets not pretend it came out of the blue.
Your life might have been impacted slightly and you might have seen some horrible images on tv but you are not being chased by armed soliders , having your ancestral lands appropriated nor being left to deal with consequences of global warming which you where nothing
to do with. Thats only the tip of the iceberg.
The people who were attacked were people who have been benefiting from the exploitation of the poorer parts of the world for years
if anyone deserved such a thing ( which i dont think anyone does ) then the people in those towers where pretty damn close.
If you want to do something about the threat of terrorism then get rid of leaders whos policy provokes it and think about where all the things you love to buy come from , otherwise quit whining.
Toodle-pip
Amias
sudo apt-cache search mplayer
and choose one optimized for your architecture. There isn't a generic mplayer apt candidate.
you could say that they own it but then you could also say they don't .
A film relies on many cultural artifacts , these artifacts where shared by our predecessors .
If film companies are to be allowed to enforce rediculous copyright restrictions they should
also acknowledge that they are using so many things for free .
I would like to see funds donated to a charitable foundation everytime the sky is featured
in a film or tv program , everytime some printed text appears a payment should be made to the
estate of william caxton . This list is nearly endless .
Untill this hypocrasy is resolved i shall continue to download films .
Seeing as this case involved an american procecuting a russian the language differences make it of dubious use for precedent.
A Domainname could mean something in one language but be phonetically similar to something completely different in another language.
Whose language would take precedence ? probably the person with most money.
I use a Netgear DG834G which appears to run linux 2.4.17 on its MIPS malta processor.
You can download a bundle of the packages it uses from netgear but they are not configured so its
hard to patch or hack with it cos you'd have to
redo their work.
This seems at odds with the GPL , on the grounds
that if you use GPL'ed code you must publish not
just the original source but your modifications as well . or am i wrong ?
The firmware upgrade patch is easily dissasembled and i've managed to hack the file system (cramfs) out of the firmware . So there is a possiblilty
that modifying the filesystem might open up safer
modification by making telnet accessable. but i'm
too much of a chicken to try it and i expect the
checksum would fail.
In the light of this microsoft monopoly business we should all be thinking about how we can preserve software diversity and not winging about advantages and disadvantages of X software against Y software . I could'nt give a brass farthing if somebody else likes a browser or not, as a web developer all i want is a browser that conforms to HTML and JavaScript properly . This leads me to no conclusion as to which is best only that greater adhearence to specs is needed . As a user i have my specific needs and look for the software that full-fills it and try to avoid the politics - end of story . By setting up camps and raising the issue above it's low status i think peoples time to look in to real issue's is diminished by having to sift through browser wars threads mistaking them for real social commentry . Maybe if people just commented on the positive aspects of each browser something productive may emerge instead of going round in decreasing circles . We could save time by writing a program to post the name of each web browser in turn to a newsgroup . So in answer to the original question , for Navigator 5 to succeed IMHO all it needs is strict standards conformance , to be cross platform and all other bells and whistles easily removable. Toodle-pip Amias